Perry-Thistle.net

Justice for Californians!

PEACE and FREEDOM PARTY RESTORED TO BALLOT!

Based on the February 10, 2003 Report of Registration, released by the California Secretary of State on March 14, Peace and Freedom Party had 79,462 registrants, just over 2,000 more than needed to re-qualify for the California ballot. This is the first time in California history that a once-qualified party which was off the ballot for two or more elections regained ballot status. Keep the momentum going! Register Peace and Freedom Party today!

More about California's only worker's party.

• Name: Rick Harmon
• Email: rick@budplant.com
• Country: USA
• Family.Birth Date: 9/15/62
• Comment:
• Hobbies: Flying, skydiving, scuba diving, cooking, reading, Esperanto and music.
• Personal website: http://www.rickharmon.net

• Nomo: Riĉjo HARMON
• Retadreso: rick@budplant.com
• Lando: Usono
• Naskiĝdato: 15-a septembro 1962
• Flankokupoj: flugado, cielplonĝado, subakviĝo, cuirado, legado, esperanto kaj muziko.
• Propra retejo: (anglingva) http://www.rickharmon.net

Mi havas apartajn dormĉambrojn. Mi volonte gastigos E-istojn, aparte eksterlandulojn.

Peace and Freedom Party:

The Peace and Freedom Party is a multi-tendency socialist and feminist political party which was first on the California ballot in 1968. It remained on the ballot until 1999 when the California Secretary of State threw the party of the ballot. He did so by violating provisions of California and Federal law by ignoring tens of thousands of Peace and Freedom Party registrants for purposes of determining if the Party had enough registrants to qualify. That case is still on appeal. Faced with the delay of litigation, and not trusting the courts in any event, Peace and Freedom launched a massive voter registration drive to secure the required number of registrants even under the law as misapplied by the Secretary of State. The Party was hampered by massive "purges" of the voter rolls, by which voters who failed to vote for two consecutive elections were placed into a separate category and were not counted. In February, 2003, Peace and Freedom succeeded, bringing its voter registration even under the Secretary of State's rules up to the required number, and its place on the California ballot was restored. During the three year period of the concerted registration drive, over 40,000 California voters newly registered Peace and Freedom, including 15,000 between January 1 and February 10, 2003. The Party's registration drive must continue to preserve the only socialist alternative on the California ballot and prevent future attempts by the Secretary of State to deprive the working class of an electoral voice. The Party stands for collective ownership and democratic management of industry and natural resources. It stands for feminism, affirmative action to combat past and present racial, national, and gender discrimination; for an unconditional end to U.S. military intervention and other forms of U.S. intervention in the affairs of other nations and other peoples.

Peace and Freedom Party stands for the rights of working class people, in the USA and throughout the world, and supports their struggles to secure and protect their rights by exercising the right to organize and to strike, and the rights of workers to support others by refusing to cross picket lines and refusing to handle scab goods.

Peace and Freedom Party stands for the universal right to adequate housing and health care..

Peace and Freedom Party stands for defense of the environment against the attacks of the polluters and clear-cutters.

The goals of the Peace and Freedom Party cannot be met by electoral means alone. The power of the working class at the ballot box must be backed up by the power of an organized working class movement on the job and in the community. Participation in elections is but a part of the activity of Peace & Freedom and its activists. We must take the battle for workers' rights, for the rights of minorities, women, and immigrants into every sector of society.

Fighting together, we will win!

See the party's complete platform
to top